Word: neos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that moment he had hidden in his pants-wave the cloth at the bull and try to take over the fight. We call him an espontdneo (spontaneous one), and we jail him: he spoils the fiesta and dangerously distracts the torero. Nehru looks like an international esponténeo...
...edges, Tito, of course, is the obvious example, and the author thinks America's best hope lies in the nationalist heresy. He also takes courage from the failure of the communist coup in Finland in 1948 and the Western victory in Austria (though I think the rumblings of neo-Nazis in the latter place undermine his statement that "Austria is a great Western success story...
...into a folk-singer. The thick atmosphere seems to be a good place for growing folk-singers, and their number increases every year. To be a night-club folk-singer, you need only a guitar (preferably battered), some dust on your shoes, a loud wool shirt, and a neo-Ozark accent ("Well sir, reckon I'll) sing a little ditty I picked up on the way to . . ."). This equipment is essential because folk-singers are supposed to be sprung from the earth...
...Covella broke into song at the top of his voice, many in the audience of 4,000 applauded loudly, though here & there some boos were audible. A front-row group of youths wearing the badge of Italy's neo-fascist M.S.I, party rose with shouts of "Bravo! Bravo" and joined in the singing of the onetime official Fascist hymn. Singer Baker looked on perplexed, then with dawning embarrassment. By the time Covella reached the final chorus-"and for Benito Mussolini, hooray, hooray, a la la"-the police had rushed from the back of the theater, stormed the stage...
Near war's end, Blandino was clapped into a Turin jail by Italian partisans, released after a year. He went to Switzerland and this year returned to Italy. He re-established contacts with ex-servicemen and chaplains of Mussolini's Republican Army and with the neo-Fascist Movimento Italiano Femminile (Italian Women's Movement), to whom he propounded his idea: revive the Mercedarian tradition for liberation of Italy's 20 war criminals convicted by Allied tribunals, and 1,600 sentenced by Italian courts. Embittered ex-servicemen, theological students, relatives of prisoners gave him support-offers...